Everyone needs sliders on their streetbike. With sliders, you can fully drop your bike at low speed and pick it out without any damage. At higher speeds they will obviously bend or grind down completely and then some damage will naturally occur. BUT they will almost always save your engine and frame in the worst case crashes.

Here is an obvious case in which they definitely helped out but the severity of the crash was just too much for them to handle. There is no doubt that they did help though. Sliders are cheap insurance for sure. This bike was obviously racing in the water at a very high speed for this kinda damage to happen. Interesting pictures none the less.

I have installed the sliders a while ago and will post the pictures by the end of the week. It took a little longer than I thought it would strictly because you have to figure out which length of bolts go in each hole and you are on your own when it comes to punching out the hole on each side of the side panels!

To begin with here is a picture of the left side mounts installed. R & G gives you the right bolts but they mix em up and you get to figure out exactly which length bolts go where. I was in a hurry so I forgot to take a picture of the lengths for each side. But here are the mounts and the bolts installed where the engine mounts are in the frame.

Left side mount installed and showing the longer stem slider which belongs on the left side.

And here we are with the RIGHT side mount installed. As you can see the mount has more of a tapered face to it whereas the other side uses a flat mount. Also note the short stem slider which installs here on the RIGHT side.

**Now I want to know WHO THE HELL was writing the directions for R&G!!! I mean it's like they never installed them but they were just giving the theory behind installing them on an Aprilia. I was pretty damn pissed when I went out of my way to download the directions and then printed out the rambling that were provided with the intentions of helping customers install their expensive product. Yeah they are high quality but damn they cost near nothing to produce besides some labor. But you make 3,000 sets and can realize a profit selling them for $40. BUT MORE than that should EASILY justify the investment of some BETTER INSTRUCTIONS provided to the customer.**

Ok time to calm down. I do appreciate these nice sliders and they are a fine product. Back to our regularly scheduled programming....

Here is what the right mount look like when installed to the engine mounting location.

Ok the R&G mounts are installed. Now you want to put the panels on and then drill a small hole and get it as close to the center of the mounting hole as possible. Just eyeball the mount and try and get as close as you can so that way you can see the mounting hole behind the side panel. Then you can use your favorite grinding tool to hone out the hole larger while at the same time moving the hole left right, up and down, while enlarging it, until it is centered on the mounting hole.

I quickly just drilled a small hole and went to work with a air di-grinder. If you don't have anything like that then you are forced to use a rat tail file or something like that to enlarge the hole. Using a small hole saw is kinda risky and I would leave that tool in your drywall work box. As you know these panels are too expensive to chop up with a saw.

And installed nice and as good as it gets. Now you just simply bolt the slider in place. It is idea to have the hole just a tad larger than the stem so that the slider and spin without much rubbing. If the hole it too tight it just will cause the fairing side panel to bind against the pieces around it from the vibration from the slider. You know... an AK-47 is loose and just works better than other comparable guns. I believe in the same principals here.